John Waltz's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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John Waltz refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- John Waltz. DAPAC Supports. 25 June 2010. "DAPAC supports progressive Congressional challengers .We only endorse progressive candidates .All our candidates:...are 100% Pro-Choice .Endorsed Candidates for 2010....John Waltz, KY 04." (www.dapac.org)
- John Waltz. John Waltz for Congress: Providing Sensible Alternatives to Family Planning. 29 June 2010. "This bill will provide women in difficult situations understand their options by providing easier access to adoption, counseling, and health care coverage versus solely relying on abortion. I ask you to support the Pregnant Women Support Act (PWSA, H.R. 2035 and S. 1032), which when enacted would: establish an 800 telephone number for pregnancy support services, provide for pregnancy counseling and childcare in universities, provide accurate adoption information to pregnant women, increase the adoption tax credit and make it permanent, exclude pregnancy as a pre-existing condition within health insurance, require SCHIP to provide coverage for pregnant women and the pre- born." (www.facebook.com)
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- John Waltz. The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY): 2010 Kentucky Primary Election Candidate Survey. Responded "End Wall-Street bailouts and focus resources on debt reduction and small-businesses," to the question "What would you do to speed the economic recovery and produce jobs needed to put Americans to work?" (www.thevoterguide.org)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Jobs "The current employment situation is unacceptable. We must focus on job creation both in short-term growth and long-term fundamentals... As congressman I will be proactive and I will focus on the most important issues. I can assure you that I will work to see that Kentucky is benefitting from national job creation efforts and that we are not left behind...I will also push to create new jobs by ensuring we begin to invest in manufacturing and in our own domestic energy to ensure we are no longer dependent on foreign oil. We have the resources here at home to produce more domestic energy. We have natural gas and we have coal and we should be using whatever we have available to get us off foreign oil..." (votesmart.org)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Reducing the Debt We Leave Future Generations. "I stand with Senator Russ Feingold in finding ways to reduce our deficit and eliminate government waste by supporting the Control Spending Now Act, which will reduce our deficit by over $500 billion. Some of the measures that we can reduce waste that is contributing to our nation's deficit includes: Ending the Wall Street bailout and saving the additional funds left over will save $244.5 billion." (votesmart.org)
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- John Waltz. DAPAC Supports. 25 June, 2010. "DAPAC supports progressive Congressional challengers .We only endorse progressive candidates .All our candidates: oppose the Death Penalty .Endorsed Candidates for 2010....John Waltz, KY 04." (www.dapac.org)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Education. "It is imperative that we go beyond outdated educational models and inject new philosophies, methods, and expectations for our nation's students while eliminating both the practice of teaching to the test and the No Child Left Behind Act. Other ways we can improve education are: Increase the utilization of hands-on learning, Emphasize the role of problem solving and critical thinking, Improve the development of social skills through group work, Emphasizing critical thinking and let teachers teach, instead of training for standardized testing, Increasing community service projects, Improving civic education with an emphasis on social responsibility and democracy, Focus more on varied learning resources versus relying solely on textbooks." (votesmart.org)
- John Waltz. 2010. Citizens for Global Solutions: Kentucky Primary Election Candidate Survey. Responded YES to the question Will you support a Congressionally-mandated cap on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, sufficient for the U.S. to do its fair share to prevent catastrophic global climate change, in time for the U.S. to negotiate in good faith an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012? (www.globalsolutions.org)
- John Waltz. DAPAC Supports. 25 June 2010. "DAPAC supports progressive Congressional challengers .We only endorse progressive candidates .All our candidates: support strong environmental protection .Endorsed Candidates for 2010....John Waltz, KY 04." (www.dapac.org)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Energy and Environment. "These incentives can take the form of a $2,000 tax benefit to consumers, which will provide Americans an incentive to reduce their energy consumption because the more energy you conserve the more money you will have in your pockets. This will be paid for by taxing energy producers who emit carbon dioxide into the air, which also will provide an incentive for energy companies to transition towards greener alternatives. This is a smart alternative to the cap and trade legislation proposed currently, which is creating a whole new trading scheme whereby corporations can ignore transitioning to green alternatives and pass on any costs to Americans." (votesmart.org)
- John Waltz. Liberal John Waltz, Challenging Northern Kentucky Republican Geoff Davis. 29 June 2010. "He supports the entire U.S. Constitution, including the right to bear arms. This is Daniel Boone country, after all." (www.bluebluegrass.com)
- John Waltz. DAPAC Supports. 25 June 2010. "DAPAC supports progressive Congressional challengers .We only endorse progressive candidates .All our candidates: support publicly funded universal healthcare...Endorsed Candidates for 2010....John Waltz, KY 04." (www.dapac.org)
- John Waltz. Health Care. "I support a public option and I am angry that the concept of a public option has been hijacked and described as socialism." (www.johnwaltz.com)
- John Waltz. The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY): 2010 Kentucky Primary Election Candidate Survey. "I support the health care reform package. We needed health insurance reform desperately, and I am appalled at every Kentucky politician that opposed it. My wife has a pre-existing condition and is among the 98,000 in my district that are without coverage. This bill helps families by providing affordable health care through exchanges and curbs the worst abuses by the insurance companies." (www.thevoterguide.org)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Immigration. "Unfair trade policies have driven countless workers in Latin America into abject poverty and in turn driving them to the United States to survive. Therefore, with new trade policies geared towards protecting workers will remove the dire decision of bypassing our immigration laws and in turn they will emigrate here by choice much like our ancestors did in the past." (votesmart.org)
- John Waltz. 2010. The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY): 2010 Kentucky Primary Election Candidate Survey. Responded: "With the end in sight and our troops slated to return from Iraq in August and within three years from Afghanistan, I can support the current policy," to the question "Do you support Americas current military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan? How long should the United States keep troops in both countries?" (www.thevoterguide.org)
- John Waltz. A New Direction in Afghanistan? 29 June 2010. "I have nothing but respect for our President, and while I understand the need for 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, I have some reservations about the consequences that could come from such a drastic escalation. We have to put into consideration the added burden to our troops who are already overstretched at this point, which will get worse without any proposal to increase the pace of troops leaving Iraq." (johnwaltzforcongress.com)
- John Waltz. Congressman Geoff Davis Shows Double Standard with Vote Against Supplemental Funding. 29 June 2010. "In my own belief, I do not feel that we are taking the right course of action in Afghanistan by ramping up forces and that we should be moving towards a political and peace-keeping posture. In Iraq, we are transitioning out of an active role there and there are plans now to remove most all troops by the end of 2010. We are finally starting to see a movement to redeploy our troops out of the Middle East and we should now reevaluate our foreign policy stance to ensure we can meet our current national security demands. Stopping the funding will do nothing to change the nature of policy in regards to Iraq and Afghanistan and only serves as a disservice to our troops who are deployed there." (www.facebook.com)
- John Waltz. Liberal John Waltz, Challenging Northern Kentucky Republican Geoff Davis. 29 June 2010. "The Afghan War: He opposed increasing troops and funding last fall, arguing that our 'main threat is Al Qaeda, which has long since moved to Pakistan,' and that the Talibans 'agenda has nationalistic roots with a desire to remove foreign occupiers' and a willingness to use any means necessary, even Al Qaeda, to achieve that. Instead of more troops, he says, 'We should engage the Taliban.' (www.bluebluegrass.com)
- John Waltz. Issue Position: Refocusing Our Foreign Policy to Better Serve Our National Security. "I will rise in opposition to any additional measures that will cause our military to fight in unjust wars that do not serve the interests of our national security. Other measures that I will advocate for in order to refocus our foreign policy to better serve our national security includes...Discontinuing multiple deployments in order to heal the damage to our military and our service members." (votesmart.org)
- John Waltz. DAPAC Supports. 25 June 2010. "DAPAC supports progressive Congressional challengers .We only endorse progressive candidates .All our candidates: support stronger gay and lesbian rights .Endorsed Candidates for 2010....John Waltz, KY 04." (www.dapac.org)
- John Waltz. Liberal John Waltz, Challenging Northern Kentucky Republican Geoff Davis. 29 June 2010. "(Y)ou should be able to love whomever you want, read whatever you want, and think whatever you want . I will not stand for any type of discrimination . I served in the military to preserve our freedom, not to limit it. (www.bluebluegrass.com)
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